Favourite sweet

What was your favourite sweet in the fifties or even earlier? I loved choc stics, Everybody's favourite mix and weren't penny bubble gums huge! Or was it because I was a child?

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I liked liquorice and still do, but these days it has to be of good quality not cheapo stuff. I disliked as a child sweets like bubble gum, gobstoppers, sherbert lemons etc. Mind you had we dared to bring anything like that home the sky would have fallen in, Mother was extremely particular about our diet and only confectionery sanctioned by her was permitted.

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Another fan of licorice here

I rarely had money for sweets and when I did in an effort to gain favour with my step mother I always took some home for her.
What she never knew was in order to get the best of both worlds I sucked them first she thought they had got sticky with being in my pocket...

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When i was 4 YO my mum run a sweet shop ...so you can guess i was really spoilt when it came to sweets there were so many to pick from, but there was one she didn't keep so on my way to school I used to get them from a rival ....they where something call FIZZ CUBES..about 1 1/2'' square 1/8'' thick different flavours ..when you put them in your mouth they really fizzed and frothed unfortunately the disappeared so you could look like a rabid dog lol ..they did come back several years later but they were smaller and very bland ...

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Used to adore 'Maynards' Fruit salad gums, sadly can't get them anymore and their wine gums are different too - some of the flavour has gone from them and the chew resistance has diminished too.

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I loved liquoice, toffees, cinammon sticks (used to smoke them) aniseed balls, gobstoppers, sherbet shandies, sherbet in a packet with a liquorice straw.

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I also didnt have alot of money to buy sweets. When I got a 1d
I used to buy a 1d McGowans toffee. They lasted for ages.
They are now very slim and flat toffee and the last time I bought
one they were about 30p. Oh and I forgot I was enjoying it so
much I pulled out one of my fillings and it cost me a fortune to
get a new filling put in. That will teach me

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Liquorice toffees and mint humbugs are my favourite sweets.

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I liked the everlasting Gobstopper.
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I too liked, and still like, liquorice but by far my biggest favourite were pear drops, I used to make my tongue sore from sucking on the rough sugar encrusted surface. I liked humbugs too but not as much as pear drops

Another one I was fond of was those Sherbet dabs(?) - yellow cylindrical cartons of sherbet with a liquorice tube sticking out the top. I think it was intended to allow you to suck the sherbet through but I can't recall it working very well and most kids used to tear the paper top open and tip the sherbet into their mouth.

Hey, what about those packets of sweet cigarettes? I doubt they sell those now. At least I hope not.